RoboRabbit89
I have only seen this at least twice,
and I find it alright at best.I will say that I do like the concept about
duel gun-fighting done this way, and since
this was written and directed by the man who wrote
"The Replacement Killers" I figured, why not
check it out.To my surprise, I find it entertaining enough
but lackluster and forgettable at the same
time, which is a shame because the concept
is really cool.I think the writer/director should have made
this film way more fun because it just lacks
in so many ways, like, their isn't enough character
development, not enough story, too many inconsistency's
in the story like why does the duel gun-fighting tournament
exist, why dose John or Colt participate in the tournament,
why isn't there more action scenes, why is the pace so slow,
and why is the main villain only shown the last 9 minutes of
the movie before it ends, among others.Overall It's just alright at best but forgettable,and lacks in
more than a few places.I give it a 3/10. Not great but watchable, if you have nothing
better to watch at least watch on a rainy day.
Seth_Rogue_One
When it started I was wondering a bit why it was rated so low, because I thought it was watchable at least.But when the second half started that became painfully obvious.The movie starts out as sort of a illegal street-fighting movie but with armored vest shooting at each other instead of boxing and kicking each other.And it builds itself up to make you think that it's gonna get more and more intense as it goes on, so the second half is so anticlimactic it's not even funny.It turns into some wannabe philosophical wonderings drama movie instead, and it has one of the most abrupt endings I've seen in a long while which literally made me ask 'seriously?' out loud to the TV-screen.And in the end I have no idea what the movie was trying to say or why it was even made in the first place.So yeah definitely not recommended, to the Mickey Rourke fans I'd like to point out that he doesn't show up until the last 9 minutes.
A_Different_Drummer
The concept was wonderful.A strange combination of Hard Times and Quick and the Dead, with a touch of Mad Max ... hard to mess up.But mess up they did.There are two schools of film criticism. The "auteur" school insists that, before taking pen to paper, you understand everything about the director and writer, to better appreciate what was intended.The second school does not care what was intended, just what shows up on screen.Using the yardstick from the second school, I see a film that almost goes out of its way to detract from its own power, to minimize its own kick, to alienate the audience at every opportunity.The dialog is wretched. The direction so bad as to be perverse and peevish. Ironically Ryan Kwantan and the stunning Freida Pinto are well cast, and in the proper circumstances could have delivered the goods. But like sacrificial pawns in a chess game, their efforts are hampered at every turn.The sound director in particular should be ashamed. The director chose for unknown reasons to have the characters speak softly all the time, possibly to generate "realism." All this generates is a headache, especially since the soundman allowed every possible noise to block out what the characters were actually saying.This reviewer almost never looks at a film and wonders aloud how much better it would have been if the Hollywood machine had gotten hold of it...? This one is the exception to the rule.
leereddy
This is not a very good film. Straight to the point, eh? It's about people who stand in a small circle clad in bulletproof vests who then proceed to draw guns and shoot each other in an underground gunfighter/duel type thingy. Bets are placed, money exchanged etc, etc.It's at one of these bizarre events we met John and Colt, our films leads, who hit it off an embark on a road trip of sorts.The film tries hard to aspire to some kind of gunslinger noir but with little plot and thinly drawn characters it all feels a bit contrived. On the plus side one of the films leads, Colt is played by the stunningly beautiful Freida Pinto so there's that at least, and it's cinematography is pretty tidy too. There's also a late appearance from Mickey Rourke,a truly gifted actor but his appearance now a days must surely frighten children and his cameo is rather naff. On the whole this picture is attempting to be cool and moody but it just all feels a bit hackneyed and trite.